Camden Art Centre, London
Asteroids are a rather on-the-nose motif in Liz Larner’s otherwise unpredictable visual and conceptual lexicon. Hurled out of the cosmos, they arrive on Earth as airborne readymades, small miracles from deep space that can have cataclysmic consequences when they make impact with our world. Larner’s best work feels much like this. Not made but discovered. Excavated, maybe. Modest, but potentially Earth-shaking.
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Of all the plastic ever produced by humankind – over nine billion tonnes and counting – less than nine percent has been recycled. Some was burnt. Most of it went into landfill. This tally is not improving. Since 2017, when China stopped importing plastic waste, developed countries have been recycling less, not more.
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Some art works are so porous towards meaning, so sensitive to atmospheric conditions and the fingerprints of discourse, that we must be careful what words we use on them. Language can indelibly tarnish objects. Liz Larner’s best sculptures have always been hard to talk about with sufficient delicacy, none more so than the ceramic tablets which dominated her seventh solo exhibition at Regen Projects since 1989. Read the rest of this entry »
